Corset



I.- NEWMAN.

(Modal.)

Corset.

' Patentecl Dec. 28, 1880.

a JW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ISAAC NEWMAN, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,069, dated December 28, 1880i Appneation flied october s, leso.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsAAo NEWMAN, ot New Haven, in the county ot' New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets 3 and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents a side view of the hip-section.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets with special reference to the hip-section, the object being to prevent the breaking ofthe bones or stays at the waist-line, and the invention`consists in the construction hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

Arepresents the front; B, the back section,

and C the intermediate or hip section, of the usual form. Diagonal] y across the hip-section is a series of bones or stays, D, the upper bone of the series starting from the rear edge of the hip-section at the top, as at a, running downward and forward to the front edge to a point, b, above the waist-line, the other bones of the series parallel therewith, the last of the series running from the rear edge of the section below the waist-line, as at d, to the front side of the lower edge, as at e, so that the diagonal series extends entirely across the section both above and below the waist-line. Combined with this diagonal series of stays is a vertical series of bones or stays, E, at the forward edge (Model.)

of the hip-section, above the diagonal series, and at the lower rear edge of the hip-section is a similar series, F, of vertical stays. The diagonal series of stays, covering as it does the entire waist-line, receives the strain diagonally across the stays, and permits a exibility of that section from the waist-line both upward and downward, and yet retains the form which is given by the cut ot' that section.

I do not wish to be 'understood as claiming a diagonal series ot bones in the hip-section of a corset 'combined with a vertical series of bones, as such I am aware is not new.

1 claim- A corset having the hip-section provided with a series of stays, D, the upper stay of the series beginning at the upper rear edge, a., of the section, running diagonally forward to a point, b, above the Waist-line, and the several belles of the series parallel therewith, and the series extending downward, so that the lower bone of the series extends from the lower forward edge, e, ot the section to a point, d, at the back, below the waist-line, combined with a vertical series of bones, E, at the forward edge, above said diagonal series, and a vertical series of bones, F, at the rear edge, below the said diagonal series, all substantially as described.

ISAAC N EWMAN.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

